August 12th, 2007
Features Don't Scale
by kit
I wonder how I missed this wonderful gem from the Coding Horror blog:
“It’s absolutely true that menus and toolbars don’t scale.”
Which then leads Atwood to the conclusion:
“Simple applications may be able to get away with menus and toolbars, or better yet, a ribbon. But as the application grows larger and more complex, it’s faster to incrementally search for the feature we need.”
Perhaps it is features themselves that do not scale and not the means through which you discover these features. The solution lies not in finding new places to stuff buttons and widgets to click on, but rather to just stop making so many fucking buttons and widgets to click on.
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